[Nagiosplug-help] check_ping critical you need more args could not pipe

[Don Munyak]

On 1/17/07, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <dermoth at aei.ca> wrote:
> On 17/01/07 04:03 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
> >> On 17/01/07 12:32 AM, Don Munyak wrote:
> >>> On 1/16/07, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <dermoth at aei.ca> wrote:
> >>>> I can't even see the text "You need more args" in  check_ping.c.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Please clarify "are your sure I'm using nagios-plugins". I installed
> >>> Nagios from ports system from within FreeBSD using make, make install
> >>> clean with the folder /usr/ports/net-mgmt/nagios.
> >>
> >> Your problem seems to be specific with Ports and you should rather see
> >> if there's a maintainer for the Nagios package of the Ports system.
> >>
> >
> > "You need more args" could also come from /bin/ping on the system he's
> > using, as check_ping works by forking and executing the system ping binary.
> >
>
> I played with check_ping a little bit, and as far as I know it writes
> something like "Could not interpret result from ping" when there's
> something wrong...
>
> I'm wondering how the output of ping could end up on check_ping's output
> since the child's stdout AND stderr are both grabbed bt check_ping...
>
> Don Munyak, if you want to verify whenever the actual ping ran and with
> which args, you can add "-vvv" to the check_ping command and running it
> from the command line. You should (shouldn't in your particular case)
> get something like this:
>
> $ plugins/check_ping -H localhost -w1000,10% -c2000,20% -p1 -vvv
> CMD: /bin/ping -n -U -w 10 -c 1 localhost
> Output: PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> Output: 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.037 ms
> Output:
> Output: --- localhost ping statistics ---
> Output: 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
> Output: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.037/0.037/0.037/0.000 ms
> PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.04 ms
> 1000.000000:10% 2000.000000:20%
> $
>
>
> Thomas
>


Hope this helps some, because I do appreciate your help so far.

[ check_icmp]

don-bsd# /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ping -v -H 127.0.0.1 -w
100.0,20% -c 500.0,60% -p 5
setsockopt failed
Setting alarm timeout to 10 seconds
packets: 5, targets: 1
target_interval: 0.000, pkt_interval 80.000
crit.rta: 500.000
max_completion_time: 3400.000
crit = {500000, 60%}, warn = {100000, 20%}
pkt_interval: 80000  target_interval: 0  retry_interval: 0
icmp_pkt_size: 64  timeout: 10
0.668 ms rtt from 127.0.0.1, outgoing ttl: 64, incoming ttl: 64
0.246 ms rtt from 127.0.0.1, outgoing ttl: 64, incoming ttl: 64
0.211 ms rtt from 127.0.0.1, outgoing ttl: 64, incoming ttl: 64
0.262 ms rtt from 127.0.0.1, outgoing ttl: 64, incoming ttl: 64
0.209 ms rtt from 127.0.0.1, outgoing ttl: 64, incoming ttl: 64
icmp_sent: 5  icmp_recv: 5  icmp_lost: 0
targets: 1  targets_alive: 1
OK -
127.0.0.1: rta 0.319ms, lost 0%|
rta=0.319ms;100.000;500.000;0; pl=0%;20;60;;
targets: 1, targets_alive: 1

[check_ping]

don-bsd# /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ping -v -H 127.0.0.1 -w
100.0,20% -c 500.0,60% -p 5
CRITICAL - You need more args!!!
Could not open pipe:

don-bsd# pwd
/usr/local/libexec/nagios

don-bsd# ./check_ping -H localhost -w1000,10% -c2000,20% -p1 -vvv
CMD:
CRITICAL - You need more args!!!
Could not open pipe:

~Don